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nice! Do you have any plans to get rid of the GL, now that you've got the R3?

Yeah, no reason to keep it. I never have used all the luggage capacity. It just felt too small and too... flexy. I'm not sure exactly how to describe it. The R3 has a great size and road presence, and is gentle as a lamb until you ask it not to be.

The Triumph R3 is a heavyweight muscle-touring bike. Think England’s cross between a V-Max and a Valkarie. It has a massive, 2300cc inline 3-clyinder engine producing 120 horsepower and over 130 foot-pounds of torque.

“We saw the big engine and said ‘This monster needs to wake up!’” stated Bob Carpenter in 2009.
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Since then Carpenter tweaked the head-cam-piston package to reliably pump out over 240 horsepower. We have also added an entry-level package of just the head and cam work without the pistons that produces over 210 horsepower.

Yeah, I've seen that - and some folks that are strapping on a turbo. Pretty crazy stuff.

My brother has a VTX1800 with a fair number of performance modifications and a buddy of mine has a turbo street glide that is frighteningly fast. So, at some point I may follow their footsteps and see how much power I can coax out of the Triumph.

But for now - I'm working on getting it set up for some 1k mile treks in the very near future. Vroom Vroom!